{"id":3520,"date":"2005-08-18T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:12:40","slug":"stop-complaining-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"STOP COMPLAINING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very funny thread over at “I Love Books”. <\/a><\/p>\n

It starts out with: “I am now more tired of people bitching about the Da Vinci Code than I am of people telling me to read it or of telly programmes and magazine articles devoted to it.” and ends with the question: “what books or authors will you never read or have you already read that you are tired of people recommending to you or trashing and why?”<\/p>\n

I have to say Henry James. If one more person tells me I HAVE to read Henry James, my head will explode. I have read him. Thanks. I don’t like him. DEAL WITH IT. It’s okay that YOU like him, but I don’t. What is the problem?<\/p>\n

As to being sick of the complainers? I’m sick of people complaining about the Harry Potter books, and angsting about them, and over-analyzing them. STOP COMPLAINING. God. Just shut UP. Why does it BOTHER you that these books are popular? Get a feckin’ LIFE, please.<\/p>\n

The thread then sort of becomes an argument about James Joyce – people who ge sick of people lionizing him and shouting: ‘YOU HAVE TO READ JOYCE!!”, and then someone makes a good point that a lot of people who bitch and moan about James Joyce actually haven’t READ any Joyce. So STOP COMPLAINING. If you bitch about a book you haven’t read, then I automatically discount your opinion. Like the fundie idiots who want to ban Catcher in the Rye<\/i> from school libraries but haven’t read it. Well: you are just an idiot, and so therefore, I do not take you seriously in any way whatsoever. Like the picketers outside of Last Temptation of Christ<\/i>, or Passion<\/i> – 90% of whom hadn’t seen the film. You’re idiots. I do not take you, or your opinion, seriously. At all. Why should I??<\/p>\n

But also: to those who feel the need to SHOUT at others about their reading choices: what on earth is your deal?? It reminds me of one of my friends who doesn’t like The Beatles, and her descriptions of being subjected to literal harangues by people who are truly ANGRY that she doesn’t like the Beatles … as though her not liking the Beatles is somehow a personal insult to those who DO like the Beatles … The stories are hysterical, actually. She’s pushed into a corner at a party by some Beatle freak, and she’s thinking: please, stranger, stop yelling <\/i>at me at a cocktail party. If I tell you I like <\/i>the Beatles, will you GET OUT OF MY FACE then??<\/p>\n

But still: funny thread<\/a>. Go read it.<\/p>\n

I’m sick of the people complaining about Da Vinci Code<\/i> too. (And that means you, too, Sister Mary Michael<\/a>!) I mean, I haven’t read the book. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t … but the complainers are just out of control! God. Get some other interests. Get a life, basically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very funny thread over at “I Love Books”. It starts out with: “I am now more tired of people bitching about the Da Vinci Code than I am of people telling me to read it or of telly programmes and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19446,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/19446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}